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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 


HovusE OF REPRESENTATIVES, April 29, 1891. 


The committee on Railroads, to whom was referred the 
petition of J. Q. Adams and others for an act of incorpora- 
tion as the Quincy Electric Freight Railway Company, report 
the accompanying Bill. 


For the Committee, 


FREDERIC W. BLISS. 


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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 


In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-one. 


AN ACT 


To Incorporate the Quincy Electric Freight Railway 
Company. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 


in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 
same, as follows: 


1 SeroctTion 1. John Q. Adams, Henry L. Hig- 


2 ginson, Charles H. Porter, Wm. G. A. Pattee, 


3 Philip L. Saltonstall, George H. Armstrong, John 
4 R. Graham, their associates and successors, are 
5 hereby made a corporation under the name of the 


6 Quincy Electric Freight Railway Company, for 


@ the purpose of locating, constructing and operat- 

8 ing a railway with electric motive power, for the 

9 transportation of freight in the city of Quincy 
10 and vicinity, with all the powers and privileges, 
11 and subject to all the restrictions, duties and lia- 
12 bilities created by the general laws, which now 
13 are or hereafter may be in ‘force, relating to street 
14 railways and railroads, as far as the same may be 
15 applicable under the provisions of this act. 


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Sect. 2. The location of said railway shall be 
subject to the approval of the city council of the 
city of Quincy, so far as the said railway is located 
in the streets of said Quincy, except so far as 
herein otherwise provided, in substantial con- 
formity with the following routes, viz.: beginning 
at a point on the northwesterly side of Weymouth 
Fore river, near the stone derrick, in that part of 
said Quincy, known as Quincy point, thence run- 
ning over private lands and a private way called 


_ Wharf street to Washington street, thence west- 


erly on said Washington street to a point near 
South street, thence over private land to South 
street, thence over South street and Howard 
street to the head of Bent’s creek, so called, 
thence westerly, southwesterly and westerly over 
private lands, crossing said South street in two 
places, to New road, thence over said New road 
to Quincy avenue and across said Quincy avenue 
to private lands, thence over private lands cross- 
ing Phipps street to Franklin street at its inter- 
section with Independence avenue, thence cross- 
ing said Frankin street and along Independence 
avenue in a southwesterly direction to a point 


> nearly opposite the pumping station of the 


Quincy Water Company, thence in a westerly 
direction over private lands and underneath the 
tracks of the Old Colony Railroad Company to 
land of the Quincy Water Company, thence over 
lands of the Quincy Water Company and private 
lands in a northerly direction to Liberty street 
near its intersection with Brooks road, so called, 


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crossing Lawyers lane, thence across Liberty 
street, making a turn to the left and running over 
private lands in a general northwesterly course, 
nearly parallel with Brooks avenue, and across 
Intervale street to Centre street, near its junction 
with Albertina street, thence across Centre street 
and along Albertina street, in a general westerly 
course for about three hundred feet, thence in a 
northwesterly direction over private lands to Sta- 
tion street, thence along Station street, and across 
the location and tracks of the Granite branch of 
the Old Colony Railroad Company, by means of 
an overhead bridge at said Station street, thence 
over private lands in a northwesterly direction to 
West street, near Doble street, so called, thence 
across West street and over private lands to 
Willard street, near a private road leading to the 
quarries, thence along said Willard street: in a 
northerly direction to the West Quincy station of 
the Granite branch of the Old Colony Railroad 
Company, but not crossing the tracks of said 
railroad company. 

Then beginning on Willard street, near said 
West Quincy station, on the northerly side of the 
tracks of said railroad company, thence along 
Willard street to Rogers street, thence along 
Rogers street for a short distance, thence in a 
northeasterly and easterly direction over private 
lands and across a branch of Furnace Brook to 
Common street, thence across Common strect and 
along Quarry, Granite, School and Marsh streets 
to the yard of the Old Colony Railroad company 
near the Quincy Adams station. 


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along Pleasant street to Water street, thence 
along Water street, crossing the tracks and loca- 
tion of the Quincy and Boston Street Railway 
Company and over private lands to Liberty street, 
thence along Liberty street to a junction with the 
main line near Brooks road, so called, together 
with all the necessary side tracks and spur tracks 
to the various quarries, stone sheds, polishing | 
shops and other business establishments along the 
line, but said Quincy Electric Freight Railway 
Company shall not take any land of the Old 
Colony Railroad Company, nor cross its location 
at grade, without its consent and the consent of 
the railroad commissioners. 


Sect. 3. Said corporation may locate, con- 
struct and operate its railway, with convenient 
double or single tracks and all necessary sidings 
and spur tracks, upon and over the streets and 
ways in the city of Quincy hereinbefore named, 
and upon and over such other streets and ways as 
may from time to time be determined by the city 
council of said city, and may erect and use such 
poles and wires, and make such alterations in 
streets as said city council shall approve. 

The proceedings for the fixing of the route, 
location and construction of said railway in the 
streets and public ways of said city and keeping 
the same in repair shall be similar to those pre- 
scribed by general laws in relation to street rail- 
ways, except as herein otherwise provided. 


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Srcot. 4. Said corporation may locate, con- 
struct and operate its railway, with convenient 
double or single tracks and necessary sidings and 


spur tracks over the route substantially herein- 


before described, and for such purpose may take 
and hold by purchase or otherwise all necessary 
real estate. It may acquire by purchase all 
necessary real estate for its freight yards, power 
stations and other uses incidental to the proper 
maintenance of its railway. 

The proceedings for the fixing of the route, loca- 
tion and construction of said railway over all the 


route lying outside of the streets and public ways . 


of said city, and for the taking of private prop- 
erty therefor, shall be similar to those prescribed 
by general law in relation to railroads, except as 


7 herein otherwise provided. 


Sect. 5. The location of said railway, outside 
of public streets and ways, shall not exceed fifty 
feet in width, and the gauge of the track shall be 
four feet eight and one-half inches throughout. 


SecT. 6. Said corporation may unite its tracks 
with those of the Old Colony Railroad Company, 
with the consent of the latter, and may enter into 
arrangements with said company for the handling 
of its cars and general transaction of business. 


Sect. 7. The Quincy and Boston Street Rail- 
way Company may enter upon and unite its tracks 
with and use the location and tracks of the 


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Quincy Electric Freight Railway Company upon 
Washington street from Wharf street to South 
street in said Quincy upon such terms and condi- 
tions as may be prescribed by the city council of 
the city of Quincy. 


SEoT. 8. Said corporation shall not lay out or 
construct its road or any part thereof, until the 
certificate required by section eighty-six chapter 
one hundred and twelve of the Public Statutes 
shall have been filed with the secretary of the 
Commonwealth, whereupon said corporation may 
proceed to organize in accordance with the pro- 
visions of the first clause of section forty-five of 
said chapter. 

For the purpose of carrying out all provisions 
of law preliminary to said organization, the incor- 
porators herein named and their associates shall 
elect from their number a provisional board of 
nine directors, who shall appoint a clerk and 


-treasurer. 


Seor. 9. The capital stock of said corpora- 
tion shall be three hundred thousand dollars, but 
may be increased or decreased, in accordance 
with the general law applicable to street railways, 
and in all other matters, not herein otherwise 
provided, the general law controlling said corpora- 
tion shall be that governing street railways as far 

as applicable. 


Sect. 10. Said corporation may from time to 
time by the vote of the majority in interest of its 


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stockholders issue coupon or registered bonds to 3 
an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty 
thousand dollars, for a term not exceeding twenty 


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6 years from the date thereof, provided that no 
7 issue of bonds shall be made unless there shall 
8 have been actually paid in an amount of the | 

9 capital stock equal to the amount of such issue. @ 
10 To secure payment of such bonds with interest 

11 thereon, the said corporation may make a mort- 

12 gage of its road and franchise and any part of its — 

13 other property, and may include in such mortgage _ 

14 property thereafter to be acquired, and may 
15 therein reserve to its directors the right to sell or 

16 otherwise in due course of business to dispose of i , 
17 property included therein, which may become — 
18 worn, damaged or unsuitable for use, in the . 
19 operation of its road, provided that an equivalent 

20 in value be substituted therefore. : ro: 
21 The bonds issued shall first be approved by 
22 some person appointed by the corporation for 
23 that purpose, who shall certify upon each bond 
24 that it is properly issued and recorded. ; 


Sect. 11. Unless said corporation begins and 
substantially completes the construction of its © 


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1 Sect. 12. This act shall take effect from ind’ ; 
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